Purpose: The purpose of this speech is to speak to you about US Navy and Atomic Veteran Russell Morgan.
Preview: First I will talk to you about what it was like before he was deployed, second, conditions and training and lastly Russell's experiences while testing atomic bombs.
Body 1: Russell morgan didn’t become a veteran naturally. Starting in nineteen fifty two, what was life like? Atomic and Korean veteran Russell MOrgan recalls sending letters to his fiance. The mail didn’t come for weeks. So they …show more content…
The conditions were a bit different on the ships than at home. Conditions on the ship expressed by this Navy member was eye opening. The main job of reading light signals and running drills to sleeping and eating on the ship, made Russell say “It was your little city.”. He slept as much as he could on a small bed that folded conveniently on the walls. Drills where Morgan shot a machine gun and wore a metal helmet on the back of the ship, were ran just in case of an actual attack out at sea. According to military.wikia.com, there were 7 devastating detonations at Bikini atoll while Morgan ran the ship. With the first test of a hydrogen bomb, Russell Morgan recalls the bomb being unexpectedly being twice the size and dropped from a B-fifty-two bomber. In the twenty-seven mile wide archipelago of islands, Morgan ran a seven fifty eight LST ship. There he checked how radiation flowed in the water currents. According to www.military.wikia.com this testing lasted from May to July in nineteen fifty six, exploding the equivalent of five million tons of